The Miscellaneous Zone

This page is here to bring you a
few miscellaneous items of interest that don't warrant a full section on The Ident Zone
yet. Or to put it another way, here are some gems in audio and video that cannot wait for
the full treatment!

For each of the clips, you have the option of a
streamed version or a downloadable version.
Some of these clips originated from Sean Hughes TV Logos site and are used with
permission.

An early (the first?) black and white era ident from Ulster
Television, the ITV franchise for Northern Ireland. Does anyone know what the symbol was
supposed to signify?

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An early B&W ident from Westward Channel 9 and Channel
12, supplied by Adrian Ruck. Can anyone date when this ident was used in the West Country?

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This video is very big, and at 2 minutes 20 secs is one of
the longest ones on the MHP. It is the trail used to launch Channel 3 North East in
September 1996. C3NE, if you've already forgotten, was the new branding for Tyne Tees
Television. It was abandoned in early 1998 and Tyne Tees was reinstated.

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Although many of you will recognise this clip for what it is,
it is actually a rarely seen variant. This 1989 Generic ITV Ident wasn't broadcast often
(if at all) as each region had their own variation which ended with a modified version of
their own logo within the "V". This however, is the generic one.

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Here's a little ditty. This jingle was used by ITV in 1979,
after the longest strike in UK broadcasting history had taken ITV off air for 13 weeks.
"Welcome Home" was the tune that everyone heard after all those weeks of an
apology caption on a blue background.

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This clip is from 1992 and was one of several variants used
as a celebration of Thames before the company ceased broadcasting to London. This
particular clip was the last to be broadcast before Big Ben chimed in the New Year and
Carlton took over. The music is by The Tourists, lead singer a would-be Eurythmic, Annie
Lennox.

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This is the fuller version of the original 1982 TSW Ident. A
shortened version was also available and seemed to get more air time. Perhaps a
Westcountry viewer will know why?

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Animation techniques had moved on by the time TSW revealed
their second ident, but some might say that the technology didn't reach the West until
much later :-)

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We go back to the early sixties for this ident from the Welsh
and West franchise holder TWW. They went on to take over the North Wales service WWN, the
first and only ITV franchise holder to need "bailing out" financially. It didn't
do them any good when the 1968 franchise round saw them ousted by HTV.

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A Black and White Ident from Westward Television, although
certainly not the first. This was one of the last ones before the introduction of colour.

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Possibly the first colour ident from Westward Television,
circa 1970? If anyone could confirm I would be grateful, it wasn't seen very often outside
the region.

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I think this was a mid seventies Westward Colour Ident, but
again I would be grateful if anyone can confirm the details of when this was shown.

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We end with the forerunner to Children's ITV (CITV). Watch
It! was a generic branding for children's television which still used regional announcers
and continuity. It was in use in the very early eighties and featured an animation that
changed with the seasons, this is from Autumn 1982 and was used to introduce the very last
Tiswas.

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